Wenping Ye

Economic nationalism and the uneven fate of domestic firms: why small businesses exit

Purpose Economic nationalism is commonly justified as a policy approach that prioritizes domestic firms and strengthens national economies. However, existing research largely assumes that domestic firms benefit uniformly from such policies. This study challenges that assumption b...

Beyond psychology and environment explanations: a linguistic microfoundation approach to entrepreneurs’ anxiety

We offer a novel theoretical account of why entrepreneurs experience anxiety and how entrepreneurs cope with anxiety. We integrate insights from linguistic theories into entrepreneurship literature to propose that entrepreneurs’ linguistic architecture—particularly the vocabulary...